Dual channel projection, 3-channel audio

In ‘Songs to Earth, Songs to Seeds’ Sepideh Rahaa portrays the poetic but often invisible and inaccessible process of rice cultivation in the paddy lands of Mazandaran, Northern Iran. The process – which takes almost a year – is an intergenerational tradition, with knowledge being passed down for nearly a century through the artist’s family.

‘Songs to Earth, Songs to Seeds’ was commissioned by Liverpool Biennial.

Courtesy of the artist and Liverpool Biennial. Images by Stuart Whipps.